rm hanging intermittently

["Richard Smith" <rgsmith72@earthlink.net>]

Hello,
    I am experiencing a problem where a "rm -rf" command acting on a 450GB XFS partition will hang approximately once per day. The system is running a daemon that issues rm commands throughout the day and 99% of commands proceed without hanging. The system is using the 2.4.20-rc1 XFS kernel compiled with gcc 2.96 on a dual P4 xeon server. The XFS partition uses the linux software raid at level 0 with the XFS partition built on the resultant device.
    Once the rm process is hung, other processes trying to access the XFS filesystem are blocked, but the system is still responsive. Killing the hung process frees up the filesystem and re-issuing the identical command that originally hung will proceed without failure. Could this be a similar problem as the one that caused hanging processes where the kernel was compiled with gcc 2.95? Any help appreciated.

Rick Smith


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